Improvement in sleigh-brake



1. & w. WOLFE.

Sleigh.-

No. 96.529. V Patented Nov. 2,1869.

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J UDSON WOLFE AND WILSON WOLFE, OF HARVEYVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA. I I

Letters Patent No. 96,529, dated Norember 2, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLEIG-H-BRAK E.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that we, Jonson WOLFE and iWIL- SON Women, of Harveyville, in the county of Lnzerne, and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleigh-Brakes; and do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

v The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a self-actingsleighbrake, so constructed that by the backing of the, team the brake will not.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains, to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 'is a longitudinal vertical section, and

Figure 2 is a bottom view.

A A represent the runners of the sled B, constructed in any of the known and usual ways.

0 is the tongue, secured to a sliding cross-beam, D, and passes to the rearinto a loop', a, on the under side of the bench E. v

The beam D slides in loops or grooves'in the bed of the sleigh, and is, by rods F F, connected with two .cnrved levers G G,pivoted, one to each runner, on

the inside.

The lower ends of these levers are sharpened and.

formed in a sort of hook-shape, as seen in fig. 1.

When the sleigh is being drawn by the team these hook-ends of said levers are out of the way entirely, being raised above the lower edge of thernnncrs; but when the team is backing, the beam D slides backward, and, by means of the rods or bars F F, presses the levers, so that the hooks project below the runners, and penetrate into the snow or ice sufl'icient to answer the. purpose.

Buttons 1) b are pivoted to the under side of the curved bars G G, pivoted and connected together, bar I E with loop a, and sliding tongue 0, all substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our hands, this 8th day of M arch, 1869.

J UDSON WOLFE. Witnesses: .WVILSON LWVOLFE. J nuns M, TURNER, f WM. Devnhronr. 

